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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Updates.

If I may paraphrase, it is better to light a smuggler's lantern than to curse the tyrannical darkness.

The stenosis worsens, apparently. Spent most of yesterday pukin' up what passed for lunch and then trying to sleep off the nausea. Finally got my referral to the UAB specialist though, and will be headed in there next Wednesday for tests and evaluation after two years of circular same-old, same-old. Praise the Lord.

We're back to being out of magazines for the smuggling campaign, so if anyone has any they'd like to donate, remember to label them according to function -- "politician grade" (non-reliable/non-functional) or freedom fighter grade (suitable for reliable use on tyrants). Will be taunting some more New York politicians as soon as I get more fodder. Cheapest way is to send them via USPS to PO Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126. If you want to send via FedEx or UPS, send to 6635 Womack Road, Pinson, AL 35126. Also, a reminder that although my email is GeorgeMason1776ATaol.com, my savings and loan will not cash checks or money orders made out to "George Mason" or to "Sipsey Street." Nor will they accept for deposit the one I got the other day made out "The Smuggler."

Per requests, I am working on an open letter to the MD state police. I keep getting criticized for such letters being "TL; DR" (too long, didn't read). The attention=deficit-disorder-plagued kibitzers on ARFcom will likely be disappointed in the MD letter too. Such is life. They are, of course, welcome to write their own letters to law enforcement and put their real names and addresses on them. They can make them as short as they want with their own asses on the line. Not holding my breath on THAT one.

14 comments:

Amazing that so many people wouldn't take the time to educate themselves, and that's what your letters are - an education. Such laziness on the collectivist blogs is to be expected, but not here.

Being able to defend your position in any argument is an essential tool, and your letters go a long way in helping people to do just that - if they bother to learn from you. And if they can't do that, they will never have anyone follow them or even listen to their own ideas, even people who would otherwise be on their side, whether in an argument or in a battle where they need the support of others.

But you can't teach those that refuse to learn, or think they already know it all. So keep it up for the rest of us.

It seems to me that the letter campaign is as it should be thanks to your command of language. What would the world be like if other journalists or activists learned the language as you have clearly done through your years? It boggles the mind.

I think your letters are concise and length is trivial. Content is key and thanks to the tyrants, there's no lack of that.

Keep on doing what you do and thanks from all of us in the fascist states . God bless you!

OK Mike! You are our man on the firing line, support and supplies are a big part of successfully winning any conflict, so I have ordered a shipment of AK mags from Apex Gun Parts to be delivered to your PO Box.

The link is https://www.apexgunparts.com/product_info.php/cPath/50/products_id/2271 or click on bondmen.

I really do enjoy helping your Patriotic efforts in support of We The People and our Constitutional Republic. Forward!

I for one think the letters are thoughful and well written. They are meant to educate. A quick 'threat' or boilerplate constitutionalism composed only for the immediate moment won't stand up to repeated reading by Politicians, LE, Judiciary and especially the Press.These letters will still be here when you are not.

I suppose you could write a letter which simply says, "Molon Labe", but thet's too short to be taken seriously. So what is the perfect length for a letter which allows you to say everything you feel is important? One page? Two? Just saying, length is arbitrary; most of those who complained have no problem reading feature-length articles in a magazine or newspaper. For sure they read more than that in school, but if it's too much for them to read your letters then chances are they wont' be of any use in this cause later on. Personally, I thought they were spot on!

Mike, can you take the envelope addressed to you along with the check, endorse the check "the smuggler" or "Sipsey Street" and show the bank teller the envelope addressed to you & then co-sign the check (for deposit only) and plug it into your bank account.I formed a couple of corporations several years ago and whenever I get a check, it ends up with 2 endorsements and then deposited. NEVER HAD ONE HITCH with that plan.Take care (and finish ABSOLVED).

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.